I’m going to tackle those while the wet layers are drying. The down side, of course, is that I have fallen a little behind in some readings for my classes. It really feels good to be hard at work making something. This weekend, I’m going to start on the faces and add layers in ink and acrylic. Yesterday, I finished the charcoal layer and am very happy with the progress of it. I’m now working on a drawing of me and my daughter dancing at a wedding as part of my larger body of work and blog and forthcoming zine, Post-Punk Parenthood.

I’ve taking that energy and channeled it into my studio. Spending four hours a week in a room full of people drawing people has made me really want to join in. The class I’m TAing has been very inspirational. There have been proposals for an instructional database for what I call an anarchist’s cookbook for the Occupy era, a mobile paper making studio in the style of a food truck, and a piece about loss suffered by autoimmune disease on a classically trained ballerina.įrom critiques I have been running down the steps two at a time to my studio. The third years have all been proposing very cool and ambitious projects. The crits that I have been able to sit in on have been very exciting. The last few days have been spent between attending critiques and time down in my studio. This has been an annual tradition now, thanks to Expo, and this more than makes up for any of the fair’s shortcomings. Plus, this year, all Columbia College Chicago students got in for free! The best part of all for me though, was getting to see a new painting by my favorite artist, Zak Smith. I’m very glad to have gone, however, and am grateful that we have an art fair at all to go to in Chicago. There was still a ton of great, and sometimes not so great, art to look at. This year it was set up in the same fashion as last year, which made it feel a little stagnant. Last year, it had an air of excitement, of something new. I will say, that in its sophomore year, it was lacking in areas that it excelled in last year.

Even though I ended up coming home soaked, it was a pretty cool night.Įxpo was fun. I even ended up buying prints from local artist, Sam Kirk. On the bright side there were a ton of openings to every gallery in the neighborhood. Of course the opening of the Wabash Arts Corridor was ushered in by a torrential thunderstorm. Oh yeah, and last week I saw the opening of the newly renamed Wabash Arts Corridor. Last weekend was Expo Chicago at Navy Pier, third year Thesis proposal critiques have been fount on all week and I’ve been spending every other free minute in my studio. The last week has been crazy busy though. The semester is going pretty good so far.

The understatement of the year